I wanna use chrome but I was told it isn't very safe and protected.

I've never experienced anything wrong with Chrome, it's just light-weight and lacks a RSS reader (as of v2 beta anyways)

chrome may be fast and stuff and have multiprocess, however I do not trust it yet and it won't load near as many sites as FF and IE do. Yahoo mail has a hissy fit with it and so does LJ.

I kinda want to use it but I have isssues with the sites I frequent so I cannot use it.

IE8 is workin awesome. Just get the extension IEpro and use the adblocking and the flashblock and it works great. flashblock is nice because if you go to a site that has it but you dont need it you don't need to bog your computer down with it. you can click to restore the flash content you want.

I also use a HOSTS file to block malicious sites and content.

120MB FF usage... ha! Nothing compared to mine. I had 20 tabs on 5 windows (property hunting) each window was a city I was looking in on several realty sites. and I approached 1.5GB!!

Also I maxxed out my tabs at 50 (3 windows)becuase I was powersearching for parts for 10 computers and also casual surfing and looking for a GPS unit and usage was at 1.8GB!!

yesh I knew about the inprivate thing too Good idea.

I dare you to max your FF! LOLz.

Maybe I will once I need to answer 20 posts on this forum, 10 on another, and then watch some videos in 3 more and yeah.. I'll try. Do older versions of FF use more memory by any chance?

I dunno I used the old FF back in the 1.0 days on linux and it was alot more stable and better. it never bloated that much as from 2.0 on. 1.5 was thier sweet spot IMO. FF 3 blows.

I did use 1.5 on windows and it was good. only I couldnt do much online though cause I was on dialup at the time.

but it did not crash near as much as FF 3 does now.

IE8 crashes tabs but that's mostly when i am on a busy blog with too much bling or on a whole-flash site. Then it recovers and I say nice and cool and calm. FF was making me have a coniption. it happened once while I bought something online and I had to contact them to cancel the order!! I broke a glass over it. I almost lost 200 bucks becuase of that!

Back in from (end of)2004/(start of) 2005 - end of November 2008 I was on Dial-up. That was also about the time when FF was version 2 was around. I hated 3 when it came out, mainly because of the new UI. I can say one thing about dial-up, you have lots of time to get a snack while waiting for something

Personally, I like Firefox 3.6a1pre "Minefield" which when I used it a few months ago was basically Firefox 3.5. I just had to download Shockwave because Flash didn't work.

I feel yah on the dail up issue. I got plenty of good naps wating for stuff LOLz. and I kept my house much cleaner

But yah most people it's a love-hate relationship with browsers.

but IE8 so far has pleased me well. Multiprocess IS THE NEXT SLICED BREAD!

Yeah, IE 8 is my default on my other comp, but I am using IE 7 here on my laptop because the tabs are smoother -- I may dig up a "beta 1" or "beta 2" copy as it has mixed features